Cast & creator
Jean Renoir
Best known for Discorama, Cinépanorama, BBC2 Play of the Week
Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962). In the 1930s, Renoir was associated with the Popular Front, and several of his films reflect the movement's left-wing politics and deal with social issues as well as class disparities. He was perhaps the most significant director of the poetic realism movement. The satirical comedy-drama film The Rules of the Game (1939) is often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made; it is the only film to earn a place among the top ten films in the respected British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial critics' poll for every decade from the poll's inception in 1952 through the 2012 list. Other important works are Grand Illusion (1937), A Day in the Country (1946) and The River (1951). Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Also known as: 장 르누아르, ジャン・ルノワール
124
film credits
4
television credits
35
1915–2021 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (128)
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Discorama
Self
1959
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
BBC2 Play of the Week
Book
1977Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1978
Grand Illusion
Director
1937Grand Illusion
Writer
1937
The Rules of the Game
Octave
1939The Rules of the Game
Director
1939The Rules of the Game
Screenplay
1939The Rules of the Game
Producer
1939
This Land Is Mine
Director
1943This Land Is Mine
Screenplay
1943This Land Is Mine
Producer
1943
The River
Director
1951The River
Screenplay
1951The River
Producer
1951
Picnic on the Grass
Director
1959Picnic on the Grass
Screenplay
1959
The Woman on the Beach
Director
1947The Woman on the Beach
Screenplay
1947
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Director
1946
Experiment in Evil
Director
1960Experiment in Evil
Screenplay
1960Experiment in Evil
Producer
1960
A Salute to France
Director
1944A Salute to France
Screenplay
1944
Elena and Her Men
Director
1956Elena and Her Men
Writer
1956
La Bête Humaine
Cabuche
1938La Bête Humaine
Director
1938La Bête Humaine
Screenplay
1938
Le Bled
Director
1929
Nana
Director
1926Nana
Producer
1926
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Self (archive footage)
1993
The Golden Coach
Director
1952The Golden Coach
Screenplay
1952
French Cancan
Director
1955French Cancan
Adaptation
1955French Cancan
Writer
1955
Backbiters
le sous-préfet
1927Backbiters
Director
1927Backbiters
Screenplay
1927Backbiters
Producer
1927Backbiters
Editor
1927
Night at the Crossroads
Director
1932Night at the Crossroads
Screenplay
1932
The Southerner
Director
1945The Southerner
Writer
1945
Langlois
Self
1970
The Elusive Corporal
Director
1962The Elusive Corporal
Writer
1962
The Tournament
Director
1928The Tournament
Adaptation
1928
A Day in the Country
Père Poulain
1946A Day in the Country
Director
1946A Day in the Country
Writer
1946
The Christian Licorice Store
Self
1971
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Self (archive footage)
2017
Swamp Water
Director
1941
La Chienne
Director
1931La Chienne
Screenplay
1931
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Screenplay
1936The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Director
1936
Le Parti du cinéma
Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Co-Director
1943
La Marseillaise
Writer
1938La Marseillaise
Director
1938La Marseillaise
Producer
1938
The Spanish Earth
Narrator (voice)
1937
D'un Céline l'autre
Self
1969
Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Self
2012
François Truffaut l'insoumis
Self (archive footage)
2014
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Director
1932Boudu Saved from Drowning
Screenplay
1932
The Little Match Girl
Director
1928The Little Match Girl
Producer
1928The Little Match Girl
Writer
1928
Marquitta
Director
1927Marquitta
Adaptation
1927
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
The Narrator/Host
1974The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Director
1974The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Writer
1974
Un tournage à la campagne
Self
1994
Cristobal's Gold
Dialogue
1940
The Emma Bovary Trial
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021
Louis Lumière
Self
1968
The Pursuit of Happiness
1930
Whirlpool of Fate
Director
1925Whirlpool of Fate
Producer
1925Whirlpool of Fate
Set Decoration
1925
Life Is Ours
Le patron du bistrot
1936Life Is Ours
Director
1936Life Is Ours
Writer
1936
La P’tite Lili
Man with Bowler Hat
1927
The Ways of Love
Director
1950
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Self
1967
Carola
Writer
1973
The Lower Depths
Director
1936The Lower Depths
Writer
1936
Toni
Director
1935Toni
Author
1935Toni
Screenplay
1935
Jean Renoir parle de son art
Interviewee
1961
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
Self
1969
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Self
1967
Renoir, My Father
Book
1978
Little Red Riding Hood
Compère le Loup
1930Little Red Riding Hood
Writer
1930Little Red Riding Hood
Producer
1930
Those of Our Land
Self
1915
Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes
Jean Renoir
1969
Baby's Laxative
Director
1931Baby's Laxative
Writer
1931
Madame Bovary
Director
1934Madame Bovary
Screenplay
1934La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir: Une analyse du film par l'image
Self (archive footage)
1987
The Sad Sack
Director
1928The Sad Sack
Writer
1928A Bum Deal
Director
1935
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Self - Interviewee
1967
Charleston Parade
Angel
1927Charleston Parade
Director
1927
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
Self
1956
Mam'zelle Nitouche
Master sergeant (uncredited)
1931
Tosca
Co-Director
1941
Chotard and Co.
Director
1933Chotard and Co.
Writer
1933